Safety-razor-blade holder.



A. E. WILDE.

SAFETY RAZOR BLADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 12. 21, 1913.

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ARTHUR EQWI'LDE, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

.SAFETY-RAZOR-BLLAIDE HOLDER,

Specification of Letters l'atent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

Application filed March 21, 1913. 1 Serial No. 756,051.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR E. WILDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety-ItazonBlade Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for holding and manipulating safety razor blades while the same are being stropped, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and eflicient device of this character, whereby, the various makes of safety razor blades now in use may be rigidly and conveniently held during the operation of stropping.

To these ends the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device shown holding a safety razorblade. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the blade holding end of the device, and Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view thereof.

My improved device consists ofthe clamping portion 1 and the handle, portion 2, formed of a suitable material such as wood. The clamping portion is preferably of triangular shape in cross section, and is split or,

bifurcated longitudinally as at 3, to a point at the end of the handle to provide two oppositely disposed clamping jaws 4: between which the device is adapted to grasp a fiat safety razor blade 5.

Resilient means are provided for forcing the jaws toward each other to cause them to grasp the razor blade therebetween. As here shown each of the jaws is provided on its outer end with reduced cooperating neck portions 6 and at their inner ends with a reduced neck portion 7 around which portion are wrapped elastic bands 8. bands exert suflicient pressure upon the reduced portions to frictionally hold the blade between the jaws with such firmness as will Copies of this patent may be obtained tor These prevent its accidental displacement during the operation of stroppingvThe provision of the said bandsalso admits of the introduction of the blade between the jaws without the necessity of removing the bands, and to facilitate this introduction of the blade a curved notch 9 is provided inthe jaws as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, whereby a depression is formed to receive a corner of the blade when the edge thereof is arranged so as to extend in the direction of the length of the slit between the j aws.

I prefer to construct the device as shown on the drawings; that is with a relatively long handle and to provide the clamping jaws with the beveled side portions where by, opposite sides of the razor may be conveniently presented to the strop at the desired angle during the operation of stropping.

When it is desired to strop a safety razor blade the clamping jaws are first sprung apart against the action of the rubber bands for a suflicient distance, to admit of the introduction of the razor blade therebetween.

It is obvious that those skilled inthe art may vary the details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of my invention and therefore I do not wish to be limited to such features except asmay be required by the claim.

What is claimed as new is:

A safety razor blade holder comprising a relatively thin handle portion and a relatively wide pair of flexible jaws formed integral with one end of the handle, said jaws being each substantially semi-pyriform in cross section and provided at their free ends with reduced cooperating neck portions and further provided in one edge with a notch to take the corner portion of a razor blade, and elastic bands embracing the said neck portions and the jaws at their point of connection with the handle. a

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR E. WILDE.

Witnesses: f

M. E. LAUGHLIN,

I I GEO. A. BYRNE.

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